When that kit was launched, much was made of how similar it was to the combination worn against Brazil in 1984, as if that should be the basis for a kit (we don’t know what they came up with to justify all of the other countries who had mismatching socks with their new kits), but that wasn’t even the first time it had been used against the South Americans.

Unlike 1984, which was a shorts and socks change, this was only a shorts-switch, as at the time red was the first-choice colour for the socks. Bukta replaced Umbro soon afterwards and the socks rotated for a while before white reassumed its superiority.